Sane Discussion of Disaster Adaptation in the NY Times

Here is a very nice article  on the "small ball" of building up resilience to climate change.   The interesting empirical question is what % of home owners will be as reasonable as Michele Nilsen?   Since 2010, I have been arguing that this is how we will adapt.  Climate change adaptation offers "the test" of rational expectations vs. behavioral economics theories.   To read my thoughts on these issues, here are a few of my recent papers;

1.  Bunten, Devin & Kahn, Matthew E., 2017. "Optimal real estate capital durability and localized climate change disaster risk," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 1-7.
2.  Matthew E. Kahn, 2017. "Will Climate Change Cause Enormous Social Costs for Poor Asian Cities?," Asian Development Review, MIT Press, vol. 34(2), pages 229-248, September.
3.  Matthew E. Kahn, 2016. "The Climate Change Adaptation Literature," Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 10(1), pages 166-178.
5.  Kahn Matthew E., 2015. "Climate Change Adaptation Will Offer a Sharp Test of the Claims of Behavioral Economics," The Economists' Voice, De Gruyter, vol. 12(1), pages 25-30, August
6.  Kahn, Matthew E., 2015. "Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Urban Economics," Strategic Behavior and the Environment, now publishers, vol. 5(1), pages 1-30, June.
7. Matthew E. Kahn & Daxuan Zhao, 2017. "The Impact of Climate Change Skepticism on Adaptation in a Market Economy," NBER Working Papers23155, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.